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Goldman Sachs’ record profits are good for the firm and “bad for America,” writes an irate Paul Krugman in the New York Times. With unemployment soaring, we’re seeing that “Wall Street’s bad habits” haven’t changed, and the government has actually made another crisis more likely by bailing out the system “without reforming it.” Wall Street has cashed in on “playing us for suckers,” and it has “every incentive to keep” doing so.

For Wall Street, it’s “heads we win, tails other people lose,” Bankers who can create profits in the short run get big rewards, even if the money is “a mirage.” They thus “have every reason to steer investors into taking risks they don’t understand.” Now, the bankers have the added assurance that if they do mess up, the government will see them through, putting taxpayers "on the hook" for banks' fumbles—thus far with hardly any regulation.

Wow! Is THIS the legendary CoronaKing? And here I kept hearing you were a concern troll sock puppet created by some conservative think tank to create chaos on the interwebs and manned by a bunch of faceless posters on their payroll! Glad we got that rumor put down at last!